While it is difficult to find info on this band, and for the fact that the promo package I received is also missing on information, I can only really focus myself on the music that is present on this album…and so I will.
In Mellan Tre Ögon Med we find a band that clearly had the potential and the ability to provide the prog community with very interesting works, have they choosen to continue after releasing this sole album. While that did not happened, Mr Brown left us a legacy of just one record in which the prime substances of the 70’s symphonic prog are to be found. If not at all concentrated on making things complex or mind-blowing, this Swedish band chose to focus their musicality on the melodic side of things, carefully constructing long instrumental passages where they keep it quite simple while betting all in creating beautiful keyboard(especially Piano and Hammond)/flute dichotomies that can drive the listener to experience a visualization of vast landscapes with a calm atmosphere.
While the vocals are not the best asset here, they are sufficiently sparse to not become an attention grabber, so that the instrumental parts are what really this bands music is all about.
Connections to such apart bands as country mates Kaipa, Dutch legends Focus and Anglo-Saxon bands like Jethro Tull, Caravan and Camel are sometimes pretty obvious, though again Mr Brown was not striving to copy any of the bands most compelling and complex stuff, but only borrowed some of the melodic textures of each of the aforementioned bands in order to create uncompromising harmonies in a calmer basis.
Anyway, I have found this an extremely nice surprise, for it is indeed an absolutely enjoyable album from start to finish. It has really great melodies that are developed through long instrumentals.
Ok, so it is not something that will blow you apart with virtuoso musicianship, but that is not the goal at all here. This is simple 70’s symphonic prog with tons of emotional and melancholic playing, and that simply gives you space to comfortably appreciate the music and get in a good mood status.